They say elephants never forget, and they also say fuck Yoko Ono. When John Lennon played Madison Square Garden Live in 1972, he played an afternoon show and an evening show. “Elephant’s Memory,” the backup band for John, claimed that the evening show was far superior, but upon releasing this concert in 1986, long after John’s death, Yoko decided to use the inferior afternoon show as the basis for the album and the concert video. Why? Nobody knows what Yoko is thinking. She probably thinks that her performances in the afternoon show were better than her performances in the evening show, which is insane, because nobody could possibly care. The tapes and video of the evening show are locked away forever, or maybe even destroyed, and we might never get to see them thanks to the brilliant Yoko. Yoko did the same thing for the Mind Games video where she took a raw 19 hours of footage, shot by college kids who followed John Lennon around for a day, and condensed it to a precious 4 minutes! In that 19 hours you can supposedly see John Lennon making an appearance at Radio City Music Hall, where the “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band On The Road” was playing. He apparently got a 20 minute standing ovation that he described as one of the greatest moments of his life, and proceeded to sit down on organ and play with the house band. Why this footage is not released is beyond me. I actually rather wish I knew it never existed, then to think Yoko’s got it hidden away somewhere for no one to see. Blah, that’s the end of my rant. Enjoy John’s performance of “Come Together,” a song originally written as a way to get people to vote LSD guru Timothy Leary as governor of California. It’s a little historical tidbit that’s a perfect segue for me to champion my status as finalist in the CBS Best Local NYC Blogger award one last time! Tomorrow is the last day of voting, and you can STILL vote for me, even if you’ve already voted! Once a day counts, so click that link and put me over the top!